"It is our duty to make sure people know where the Catholic Church stands on abortion, and we’ll keep making life miserable for any so-called Catholic who stands up for anything else."
"When a ninety-year-old Catholic mother dies, a man who’s been at the parish for fewer than six years puts on a robe, says a few words, and then we go home. And every time I think, you have no idea who you had here."
Our culture is marked by a competitive victimization. But perhaps we need to see what both secular and religious perpetrators of violence have in common.
Daryl Russell Grigsby’s book, grounded in a tradition of Black social justice Catholicism, brings to life the stories of those who try to make of the world a garden.
The history of Marian devotion in the Catholic Church is over a millennium old. This weekend, thousands of Catholic pilgrims will gather in Rome to continue this long tradition at the Marian Jubilee.
The uproar surrounding Cardinal Cupich’s decision to honor Dick Durbin for his work on immigration reform reveals more about the divisions in the U.S. Church than it does about either man.
Since the release of 'Fratelli tutti' five years ago, the encyclical's call for human fraternity, social friendship, and a culture of encounter has lost none of its salience.
Stephen Harrigan’s book ‘Sorrowful Mysteries’ gives a stirring account of the historical, political, and spiritual impacts of the 1917 apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fátima.
Seeing God’s work in the patterns of the natural world can be a beautiful thing, provided we avoid making a scientific, causal hypothesis out of our experiences.
How can the Church and civil society honor the humanity of those dealing with mental illness? In this symposium, three authors discuss serving the least of these.
Contributions to this symposium challenge us to think more deeply about how the Church and civil society can recognize and honor the humanity of those dealing with mental illness.
From the Asian Buddhist perspective, modernity has frequently arrived not as unalloyed liberation but as secularist violence, coercion, and the suppression of spiritual traditions.
James Dobson’s message prevented my mom from recognizing her own agency, confronting humanity’s messiness, and fully understanding and accepting her family.
It is remarkable and new, not just that web design was a major part of Carlo Acutis’s life, but that the Catholic Church praised it as an integral aspect of his sanctity.
In 2024, Trump made gains among men of all ages, races, and most religious persuasions. But he also made significant inroads among some women—especially Catholic women.
